Students (and teachers) have a difficult time learning things that contradict their current understanding of the world; most of us believe that new information we receive confirms our earlier beliefs, theories, interpretations, ...

The events of September 11, 2001 have changed the way Americans view terror and terrorism forever. The events of this one day made a type of destruction Americans had only read about previously a reality in our own home. ...

This study provides a profile of some of the characteristics of 114 Community Acupuncture Network (CAN) clinics as of June, 2011. Characteristics of clinics that affect their accessibility are examined. Most clinics offered ...

A review of J. M. Kouzes and B. Z. Posner’s book, Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It, published by Jossey-Bass in 2011. An updated and revised version of their 1993 book, also titled Credibility.

We conducted a randomized voter registration field experiment including 7,366 trackable students at a public Indiana university. Consistent with prior research, we found no effect from emails linking students to traditional ...

This paper revisits the income maximization hypothesis on immigrant self-selection. The traditional Roy model predicts that negative selection would arise when income distribution in the source country becomes more unequal ...

This study sought to expand on the relationship between the computer activities of
contact child sexual offenders as opposed to non-contact child sexual offenders, seeking distinguishing characteristics between the two groups.

Self-monitoring is defined as the observation of one’s behavior (Newman et al., 1997) and applying operant techniques to modify that behavior (Malott, 1989). The skill of self-monitoring is acquired and perfected with daily ...

Key aspects of learning are acquisition and retention. Speed and accuracy, or together, fluency - the term used in Precision Teaching, can be measured as evidence of learning. (Stockwell& Eshleman, 2010). Say All Fast a ...

Cooperative learning is a teaching strategy implemented in classrooms in order to prepare students for the future. It enables students to work together to accomplish common learning goals while increasing their understanding ...

When working within sexual health and with people who engage in varying topographies of sexual behavior, the first thing to remember is that sex is behavior: it’s something we do and it follows the same rules as all other ...

In a mixed mating system, plants use both self- and cross-pollination to produce seeds. Observations of pollinator behavior from populations of two Kenyan
Hibiscus species suggest that H. aponeurus uses self-pollination ...

Mantiziba, Nyaradzo(Indiana University South Bend Undergraduate Research Conference, 2014-03-28)

It is only in recent decades that interest in understanding the relationship between religion and health has reawakened in scientific and academic spheres. According to Wulff (cited by Duriez, Soenens, & Hustebaut, 2005), ...

When working with children with autism, it is essential to teach the daily living skills necessary to help them achieve independence (Pierce & Schreibman, 1994). The "Big 6+6" are "basic fine motor movements that all ...

Over the last century and a half, grade retention, a controversial intervention, has been used as a strategy to improve academic achievement with at-risk students. This study sought to learn about educators’ perceptions ...